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<div class="portal">[[File:Pinkertons.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara]]====In 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded a detective agency that would grow into the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Pinkerton's agency is easily the most famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investigate their employees and catch train robbers. But over time, the Pinkertons developed an intimate relationship with the federal government and as these partnerships grew the Pinkertons' role increased dramatically. {{Read more|Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:Brykczynski-Primed-for-Violence-c.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Primed for Violence in Interwar Poland: Interview with Paul Brykczynski]]====Paul Brykczynski's new book Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland published by the University of Wisconsin Press explores the tragic efforts of the Polish people to create a new democratic state after electing their first President, Gabriel Narutowicz.{{Read more|Primed for Violence in Interwar Poland: Interview with Paul Brykczynski}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:Gregory-American-Surveillance-c.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory]]====The United States has been conducting surveillance of its citizens since it was created, but the ability of any government to spy on its citizens has dramatically improved in the digital age. How should United States balance national security and personal privacy? Does the Constitution provide adequate protection against unrestricted government surveillance? What can advocates do to strengthen personal privacy rights? These concerns will only intensify in the years to come.{{MediawikiRead more|American Surveillance:BannerInterview with Anthony Gregory}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:OriginsAmericanReligiousNationalism.png|thumbnail|200px|left]]====[[Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby]]====The Oxford University Press has released Sam Haselby's book <i>The Origins of American Religious Nationalism</i> in a new affordable paperback version. This is a fantastic book that has been getting praise from prominent historians since it was originally released. Gordon Wood described his book in the New York Review of Books as an "impressive and powerfully argued book - that ....it was American Protestantism and not any sort of classical republicanism that was most important in shaping the development of American nationalism."{{Read more|Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby}}</div><div class="portal" >[[File:VDC_book_cover.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover]]====Starting in 1787, states began to ratify the newly drafted federal Constitution which would determine the fate of the new American Republic. In order for the Constitution to go in effect, nine of the states needed to agree to the document. While five states quickly ratified the Constitution between December 1787 and January 1788, the country's eyes stayed on Virginia. Virginia was the most populated and largest state and it was critical for the state to ratify the Constitution to legitimize the process. {{Read more|Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:The_Alien_and_Sedition_Acts_of_1789.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin]]====The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were four laws that were passed by the predominantly Federalist Congress and signed by John Adams to strengthen the national security of the United States. These acts not only restricted the ability of an immigrant to become a citizen, but made it easier to deport non-citizens who were either deemed dangerous or were citizens of hostile countries. Perhaps the most contentious aspect of the new laws criminalized the printing or speaking allegedly false statements about the federal government. Not surprisingly, these laws were incredibly controversial and strongly opposed by Thomas Jefferson's opposition Democratic-Republican party.{{Read more|The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:Cayleff.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]
====[[Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff]]====At the very end of the 19th Century, a new system called naturopathy was created by Benedict and Louisa Stroebel Lust. Unlike many of the 19th Century medical systems created, naturopathy has persevered to this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number of influences including botanics, hydrotherapy, eclecticism, temperance and vegetarianism. {{Read more|Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff}}</div><div class="portal" style="width>[[File:85%;">Engineeringvictory.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]
====[[VoodooEngineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Kidnapping Jr.]]====Logistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination of complex operations such as moving, housing and supplying troops and Race their equipment. War is the ultimate test of any logistician. During the Civil War, the Union troops fought almost the entire war in New Orleans the South. Thomas F. Army, Jr. argues in his new book Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War published by Johns Hopkins University Press that the Union's engineering prowess during Civil War gave it an distinct advantage over the Confederacy.{{Read more|Engineering Victory during Reconstructionthe Civil War: Interview with Michael AThomas F. RossArmy, Jr.}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:Conspiracy_of_Free_Trade.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Interview with Marc-William Palen]]====Marc-William Palen'''Featured Author s new book The "Conspiracy" of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896 is relevant not only to historians of imperialism, capitalism, and economics, but to the 2016 American presidential primary election. Once again, free trade has become a central campaign issue during a presidential election. {{Read more|The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Interview'''with Marc-William Palen}}</div>
<div class="portal">[[File:NOLA kidnapping jacket photo (2)Shantytown_USA.jpg|thumbnail|left|thumb|125px200px]]In October====[[Shantytown, the Oxford USA: Interview with Lisa Goff]]====The Harvard University Press will be publishing The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Caserecently published Lisa Goff's new book Shantytown, USA: Race, Law, and Justice Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor. There's a chance that one of your American ancestors lived in the Reconstruction Era by Michael Aan American shantytown. RossWhile we may not realize it now, an Associate Professor at the University shantytowns were a common feature of 19th century America. Goff's book explores not only how shantytowns became a prominent feature of MarylandAmerica's towns and cities, but why middle class Americans eventually turned on them and their residents. {{Read more|Shantytown, USA: Interviewwith Lisa Goff}}</div><div class="portal">[[File:Voodoo, Kidnapping Hodges_scout.jpg||left|thumb|200px]]====[[Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Travers]]====Johns Hopkins University Press has recently published Len Traver's new book Hodges' Scout: A Lost Patrol of the French and Race Indian War. Travers' book examines a group of colonial scouts who were ambushed on a patrol in upstate New Orleans York by French and Native American soldiers during Reconstructionthe French and Indian War. Travers uses this massacre to explore the lives of the colonists who fought, died and even survived this massacre.{{Read more| Hodges' Scout: Interview with Michael A. RossLen Travers}}
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====[[Interview:Lincoln's Biggest Bet: Interview with Todd Brewster]]=='''Featured Interview'''==
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Todd Brewster has had a remarkable career in both journalism and academia. He worked with both Life magazine and ABC News as a Senior Editor and Producer. When he was with ABC News he teamed with Peter Jennings on two monumental projects, The Century and In Search of America. The Century and In Search of America were mini-series that aired on the History Channel and ABC.
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====[[Interview:Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur]]=='''Featured Interview'''==
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Two hundred years ago, instead of being littered with gleaming glass towers and skyscrapers, Manhattan was home to thousands of wandering pigs and livestock. Antebellum Manhattan bore little resemblance to modern Manhattan's gleaming skyline. Catherine McNeur, assistant professor at Portland State University, has written a new book, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City, published by Harvard University Press that explores a Manhattan filled with shanty towns, farmland and domesticated animals running loose in the streets.
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====[[Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of Interview:African American Soldiers During the Confederacy?”Civil War: Interview with Author Bob Luke]]=='''Featured Interview'''==
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Johns Hopkins University Press recently published Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops written by Bob Luke and John David Smith. After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, African Americans volunteered to fight for the Union. Soldiering for Freedom seeks to explain how these men were recruited, used, treated during the Civil War.
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==[[Interview:The History of Music Piracy: Interview with Alex Sayf Cummings]]==
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When most of us think about music piracy we focus on Napster and Bit Torrent, but music piracy is nothing new. Alex Sayf Cummings explores the history of music piracy during the 20th Century in his book Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2013). Alex Sayf Cummings is an assistant professor of History at Georgia State University.
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